Migrating from Apple Keychain to 1Password

Apr 9, 2016
• Merlijn

While googling for a solution to get my yubikey/pgp setup properly working with github’s new PGP signing feature, I found a post from the guardian about protecting your online identity. Skipping through this post, I realised that, despite using technologies as PGP, I am/was using a fairly weak mechanism to manage my passwords. And that I am sloppy on staying disciplined on my passwords (223 duplicates tells 1 password me now). So no excuses anymore for not start using a password manager.

1Password, Lastpass or ?

But which one? Google for lastpass or 1password and you will get

About 184.000 results (0,45 seconds)

Eventually it boils down to your personal preference and if you have a license somewhere. So I decided to give 1password a try.

Moving away from icloud keychain?

So I installed 1password and actived my license (jeej! v4 license still valid for v6, nice one!). But then you find yourself with an empty 1 password vault and you start looking for an import option to import your keychain passwords.